'Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.'

“Greed, ambition, revenge, or seduction would break the strongest chords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.”

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected with one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”

“The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were… the general Principles of Christianity, in which all… sects were United…”

'I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year…'

“Let ministers and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unit their endeavors to renovate the age by educating their little boys and girls and by leading them in the study andpractice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.”

“The reverence for the sacred book that is thus early impressed lasts long and probably, if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”

“God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?”

“The great pillars of all government and of social life are virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible.”

“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis; a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God…?'

“The holy scriptures can alone secure to society order and peace.”

“Bibles are strong defences. Where they abound, men cannot persue wicked courses.”

“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish.”

“…I am as perfectly satisfied that it [the Constitution] is as much the work of a devine providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.”

“I have been alternately called an ‘aristocrat’ and a democrate–I am neither–I am a ‘Christocrate.’”

“The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of extinguishing Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was

“You [Indian chiefs] do well to wish to learn our arts, and our way of life, and above all the religion of Jesus Christ.”

“In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars [religion and morality].”

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”

“…let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds ofpeculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

“I should be pained to believe that the United States… failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.”

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God and to obey his will.”

“The cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousness; it inspires respect for law and order and gives strenght to the whole social fabric.”

”God grants Liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

“The Scriptures direct in Exodus 18:21 that our rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God––able men such as fear God––men of truth and hating covetousness. It isto the neglect of this scripture that we must ascribe the multiplied frauds breeches of trust and embezzlements which tarnish the character of our country and which disgrace our government.”

“I was led by a spontaneous impulse to repentance, prayer, and entire submission and surrender of myself to my maker and redeemer.”

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts containedin the Bible.”

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. If our government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness it must be because the citizens neglect this scripture [Exodus 18:21] and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

“Far from being rivals or enemies religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assisstants. Indeed, these two sciences run into eachother.”

“He is the best friend to American liberty who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion and who sits himself with the greatest firmness to bare-downprofanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I hesitate not to call him an enemy to his country.”

“Choose leaders of inward principle and exemplarly lifestyle. Is it reasonable to expect wisdom from the ignorant, or faithfulness from the unfaithful, or diligence from men ofcareless life? Is it reasonable to commit public money to those who have wasted their own? Those therefore who pay no regard to religion and sobriety in the persons who they send to the legislature of any state are guilty of the greatest absurdity and will soon pay dear for their folly.”